girls:
8.5k births since 1912
#1766 (69th percentile)
boys:
122 births since 1915
#4464 (3rd percentile)
overall:
8.6k births since 1912
#2916 (62nd percentile)
The name Delois is the #2,916 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,622 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 62.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,766 (69.1% percentile) for all time with 8,500 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,464 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 122 births since 1915.
Delois first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Delois is available in 83 out of the 88 years between 1912 and 1999 (83 years for girls and 19 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Delois has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Delois reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 39.9% percentile (ranked #413) with 184 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 184 births per million (ranked 39.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
For boys, Delois reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #512) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1945.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delois".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Delois. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Delois is pronounced as deh-LOYS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEHL-wah, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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